Metzger v. Osbeck

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• holding that excessive corporal punishment violates substantive due process
• student sustained a broken nose, fractured teeth, lacerations, and other injuries requiring hospitalization
• “[W]e cannot permit a summary judgment to be granted to a defendant who, by an intentional act, may have caused serious harm simply because he says he did not intend the harm.”
• school official’s conduct consisting of grabbing student in chokehold and causing student to lose consciousness and fall to the pavement resulting in student breaking his nose and fracturing teeth analyzed under corporal punishment framework
• “a decision to discipline a student, if accomplished through excessive force and appreciable physical pain, may constitute an invasion of the child’s Fifth Amendment liberty interest in personal security and a violation of substantive due process prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment”

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